Publisher's Synopsis
This book contains part of the voluminous work-related private correspondence sent to Sir Ernest Satow while he was Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan (1895-1900) from the Satow Papers held at The National Archives, Kew, London, transcribed and published in full from mostly handwritten originals with annotations added by the editor for scholars and researchers. This is the fourth and final volume, and it contains letters from Formosa (now Taiwan) where the British Japan Consular Service took over staffing duties from the China Service after the island was ceded to Japan by the Treaty of Shimonoseki which concluded the Sino-Japanese War in 1895. The expert foreword is by Dr. J.E. Hoare of HM Diplomatic Service (retired) and SOAS.
